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That quality frightens me now, because I know what he told me: that I was broken, that I was worthless, that I was nothing. How many of those things did he make me believe?

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Broken
Told
Quality
Nothing
Many
Believe
Make
Frightens
Things
Worthless

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You sadistic pansycake.
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So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free.
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